Gracepoint

For executives desperate to unearth the next big hit, the appeal of preexisting properties is clear. But as television doubles down on remakes, reboots, spin-offs, and franchises, viewers stand to suffer.

We may be going "Gone Girl"-crazy here at Indiewire, not only heavily covering the highly-anticipated film from David Fincher, but now modeling our review of the new Fox drama "Gracepoint" after the structure of Gillian Flynn's novel.

Box Office Insider seldom features pieces on TV shows but we felt we had to make an exception here. This is the trailer for Fox's new fall ten part mystery event, "Gracepoint". The show is based on the award winning ITV miniseries, "Broadchurch", which also starred David Tennant.

It may have taken Guillermo Del Toro five years between "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" and this summer's "Pacific Rim," but the filmmaker isn't wasting a hot second as he heads in 2014. He'll kick off the year shooting "Crimson Peak" and by time the summer arrives he'll be on the small screen too.

Remaking an international series in the U.S. with the same lead actor isn't exactly well-omened given what happened to AMC's "Low Winter Sun," but Fox is going ahead with it anyway with "Gracepoint," a redo of the ITV's hit small town murder mystery "Broadchurch."